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Dahi Baingan (Baingan Raita)

Raita is generally is a curd based side dish. There are a lot of varieties of raita prepared all over the country like cucumber raita, boondi raita, tomato raita . These goes great with biryani, pulao and lots of flavored rice.

Dahi baingan is another member of this family. It goes great with zeera rice, veg pulo, Kanika and a lot of more vegetarian meals.

Ingredients:

eggplant : 1 large cut into long 1/3 inch slice

Curd: 1 cup

Green Chili: 2-3 sliced

Curry Leaves: 5-6

Garlic: 2 cloves crushed

Mustard Seeds: 1 tsp

cooking oil: 2 tbsp

Salt: as per taste

Sugar: 1 tsp

Water: 1/2 cup

oil for deep frying

Procedure:

Mix the eggplant slices with 1tsp of salt and let it marinate for 5 mins.

Fry the eggplant till golden and little crispy.

Drain and pat it using a kitchen towel.

In a bowl bite the curd into till its smooth and water, salt as per taste(keep in mind eggplant has salt in it which will infuse into curd after some time) and sugar and mix it.

Let it sit for 30 mins before serving, this lets the flavors infuse into each other.

As the beautiful festival for Diwali is a lot of people would be planning a lot of parties for friends and family, and it would be mostly vegetarian for lot of people to would work as a great side dish.

It is a very popular dal dish in Orissa. It is generally prepared when there are guests coming over and it has to be vegetarian food. It goes great with poori. It is nutritious as well as tasty. It has goodness of lentils and taste of pumpkin.

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